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The Matthew Perry Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have created an addiction medicine training fellowship in Matthew Perry’s name and selected its inaugural fellow, the organizations announced Tuesday. The Matthew Perry Foundation Fellowship in Addiction Medicine allows a residency-trained physician to join MGH’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship to study addiction treatment and work toward

Ashley Sutton is set for a guest star role in “Yellowjackets” Season 3. Sutton will appear alongside previously announced guest stars Joel McHale and Hilary Swank in the new season of the Paramount+ with Showtime series. They join returning cast members Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie

Kate Mara has signed on to star opposite Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington in the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Imperfect Women,” Variety has learned. The series was originally commissioned at Apple in March 2024. It is based on the Araminta Hall novel of the same name. The official description of the projects states that it

Amazon Prime Video has released the first trailer for the Biblical epic series “House of David.” Newcomer Michael Iskander, who starred in the Tony Award-winning musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” plays David and was chosen after a four-month international search. The first three episodes of “House of David” are set to premiere Feb. 27 on Prime Video

Kevin Kline will star in a new half-hour comedy called “American Classic,” which has been picked up to series by MGM+. The “Disclaimer” actor will star alongside Jon Tenney (“The Closer”) in the show, co-created by Michael Hoffman (“Soapdish”) and Bob Martin (“The Prom”). The eight-episode series follows a narcissistic Broadway star named Richard Bean

A single home in the rural southeastern U.S. stands at the center of a growing rift between Nielsen and the Spanish-language broadcasting giant whose audiences it measures. Executives at TelevisaUnivision are livid about a quirk in Nielsen’s process of tabulating the audiences for Spanish-language TV that they say is giving rival Telemundo a significant boost

“On Patrol: Live,” the weekly live series that follows police officers in action around the country, has been ordered for another season by Reelz — keeping the show going on Friday and Saturday nights through the start of 2026. The deal calls for 90 new episodes of the series, which airs three hours live on

Indie streaming service Nebula has set its first-ever scripted original series, “Sub/liminal,” with Oscar-winning producer Dan Jinks (“American Beauty,” “Big Fish,” “Pushing Daisies”) on board to executive produce. Per Nebula, “The new dark anthology series from the indie streamer will be in the vein of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. The show will explore

Netflix has released the trailer for Season 8 of “Love Is Blind,” which this year celebrates its fifth anniversary on the streamer. The new season, which takes place in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minn., premieres on Valentine’s Day. “Love Is Blind,” which has spawned multiple international spinoffs since its 2020 debut, puts singles through a series of

Miso Film Sweden is bringing Linn Ullmann’s acclaimed novel “The Cold Song” to the small screen in a six-episode series for SVT and Film i Väst. Directed by Mikael Marcimain, known for his work on “Blackwater” and “The Hunt for a Killer,” the series promises to be a gripping exploration of family dynamics and hidden

The three Scandinavian broadcasting partners in the Scandi Alliance –  TV4 Sweden, TV2 Denmark and TV2 Norway – have announced their first joint drama bet “Royal Blood” (“Blått Blod”), currently in early development at Miso Film Norway, part of Miso Film, a Fremantle company. Head-writers of the mega-historical project are the multi-awarded Stephen Uhlander (“Nobel,” “The

Most Super Bowl commercials aim to entertain. A minute-long Big Game ad from telehealth company Hims & Hers Health might do something very different. The spot, slated to air during the third quarter of Fox’s February 9 telecast of Super Bowl LIX, uses a collage of video footage to tell viewers that obesity has become

For Shaboozey, the Super Bowl brings with it the opportunity to satisfy a sweet tooth. The musician behind the hits “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and “Good News” used to spend Halloween “super excited to open up my bag” and look to  and to see how many boxes of Nerds were inside. Now he’s taking part

Jim Acosta, the aggressive CNN correspondent who has gained notice for holding interview subjects to account from perches in the White House press room and on newsroom sets, is poised to leave the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet after a shake-up in its schedule that left him without anchoring duties during daytime hours. Acosta is expected

Michelob Ultra, the beer that likes to strike alliances with sports and athletes, will use Super Bowl LIX to get back into its game. An advertising appearance during Fox’s February 9 broadcast of the Big Game will help the brand kick off a year of sports sponsorships that will likely include the Ryder Cup, FIFA

Procter & Gamble hopes it can win the advertising game on Super Bowl Sunday with a real grass-roots effort. Not everyone in the nation will see the company’s ads for Spruce, a new lawn-care product that P&G says kills weeds and grasses within a a day, while being safe to use around people and pets

Which is more important: a potty break or a commercial break? One Super Bowl advertiser thinks it has the answer. As one of the nation’s biggest makers of consumer goods like Brawny paper towels and Dixie cups and paper products, Georgia-Pacific has crafted hundreds of commercials over the years that millions of people choose to

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart slammed Democrats for calling Donald Trump “un-American” and “authoritarian” for signing a flurry of executive orders during his first week in office when in reality he is operating within his constitutional rights as president. Stewart opened the segment with a compilation of news outlets ringing

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from Monday’s episode of Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star,” titled “Impact.” The sky is literally falling when Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” concludes its second-to-last episode Monday. The members of the 126 brace themselves for the impact of an asteroid they found about just minutes before, and the audience waits for next week’s

CBS is once again testing out new ingredients for one of its oldest, most recognizable programs, “The CBS Evening News.” On Monday, CBS News jettisoned many of the signature elements of the program — the ones that are also utilized by its main competitors, NBC News’ “NBC Nightly News” and ABC News’ “World News Tonight.”

Park Sung-hoon knew there would be pressure placed on him after taking on the role of Cho Hyun-ju, a trans woman in “Squid Game” Season 2 who participates as a player in the games in order to help fund her gender-affirming surgery. “I was quite amazed at the opportunity — I felt like as an

Arlan Ruf, a promising, up-and-coming young actor, will co-star opposite Jason Bateman and David Harbour in the HBO limited series “DTF St. Louis,” Variety has learned. The seven-episode show comes from creator and showrunner Steven Conrad (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” “Wonder”). HBO describes “DTF St. Louis” as a dark comedy about a love triangle

In late 2021, Barry Levinson and Robert May knew that they wanted to make a documentary about America’s deep political divide. After listening to an episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” which focused on school board wars in Bucks County, Pa., the directing duo decided to visit the once-idyllic swing county located

Ben Stiller shared how Noah Baumbach’s directing style rubbed off on him while working on “Greenberg.” Stiller starred in Baumbach’s 2010 rom-com and recalled on Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast that the director had “no chairs” on set. “I think it was like 10 days into shooting, and I’m like, ‘Where’s the chairs? Oh

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Bachelor Mondays are back. Grant Ellis will begin his journey for love (and social media fame) tonight during the Season 29 premiere of “The Bachelor.” The long-running dating show returns to its typical Monday

Kevin Costner will host and executive produce a three-part docuseries titled “Yellowstone to Yosemite” for Fox Nation. Premiering on Feb. 8 with episodes dropping weekly, the project is the second of its kind, following the deal Costner made to produce “Yellowstone: One-Fifty” with the network in 2022. “Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner” sees Costner

Sony Pictures Television has hired Disney TV exec Jennifer Rogers Doyle for the newly created position of executive vice president of franchise management. In this role, which Rogers Doyle begins effectively immediately, the Disney vet will lead and oversee the franchise strategy of valuable intellectual properties (IP), collaborating closely with various teams to maximize revenue

“Bluey” and “Grey’s Anatomy” were the most-streamed programs of 2024, according to a year-end Nielsen report. The Australian preschool program racked up 55.62 billion viewing minutes on Disney+, while the long-running hospital drama nabbed 47.85 billion across Hulu and Netflix. Animated series on Hulu took the next two spots — “Family Guy” with 42.44 billion

Selena Gomez posted and deleted an emotional video of herself crying over deportations of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which resulted in her getting conservative backlash online. “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry,” a crying Gomez said in a video on her Instagram Story Monday. “All my people are

A new vacation brings along a new cast of unsuspecting vacation-goers with the third season of “The White Lotus.” The new trailer takes the Emmy award-winning social satire to an exclusive Thai resort, with the giant cast bringing Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey and Patrick Schwarzenegger, among